With Chinswing you can use a microphone to record you voice and tell people something, or just ask, or comment, or… imagination is your limit! Imagine a forum but with no written words, just your voice.

To follow conversations you can Listen on the website, Keep a “watchlist”, and optionally receive email notifications or just Subscribe using the RSS/Podcast feed link. Try to listen to some conversations to see the real potential, and if you like the idea you can also be part of this, with a free registration and a microphone.

Chinswing pretends to bring people together in an environment of constructive communication. It was developed entirely by Dean Worth.

Another Free Online Tool!  

We have been talking about education tools in the last posts: Web 2.0 ideas for educators, Camtasia Studio 3 now for free, Computer training and also Sciencehack – Science Videos.

edu2.0 is a powerfull tool for education. edu2.0 is more than a CMS, a LMS, a Social Network, a RSS Aggregator or a social software tool. With edu2.0 you can teach, learn, use and share resources and  join communities.

edu20 is free but have most of the features offered by the commercial vendors, like virtual classrooms, communities, social networking, a community-contributed library of resources, private messaging, rubrics, quizzes, curricula, a personalized self-paced study.

If you’re not a native english speaker they allow volunteers to translate the site into different languages. edu20 is already available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish and Italian.

This short 3-minute video provides a good overview of the site:

All this for free, just regist and you’re on edu2.0.

Quentin D’Souza from Teaching Hacks made this book: “100+ Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators: A Guide to RSS and More”. This is specially for teachers and educators, describing how web 2.0 can be used in the Classroom with examples of elementary and secondary teachers.

So if you’re a teacher/educator and want to know more about RSS, feeds, web2.0, tags, creative commons, social bookmarking, blogs, wikis, podcasting, eportefolios, then this is your opportunity. A book with a simple language and good examples.

This 50 page document with 750 KB is available for download in pdf here.

I guess this is Techsmith Christmas present, especially for the education area. Camtasia is now on the 5ht version, so they decided to offer version 3. This tool will help to capture your screen.

You can record (screen, voice, cam) edit and share a presentation. This will help you to demonstrate a program or how to do an action on a computer.  With the PowerPoint included add-in, you can also record a PowerPoint presentation using your voice along with the presentation. When editing you can include transitions, quizzes, images, captions, callouts… and then it can be produced to make a cd or a web page, or just a file using your preferred format (MP3, iPod video, Flash (SWF and FLV), AVI, Silverlight, compatible WMV, QuickTime (MOV), RealMedia (RM), Animated GIF, Executable (EXE)).

So if you want to use this powerful tool, just download it here and get your software key here.

Check the Camtasia tutorial made with Camtasia here.

642-552 covers topics like security pressures facing contemporary network infrastructures, protecting Cisco routers, ect. 642-892 may also be considered in place of the BSCI as well as BCMSN exams needed for CCNP and CCDP certifications. 650-621 enables the candidate to sell, develop, and support Cisco technologies and enhance their performance. 70-630 teaches skills to handle internet information server, its administration and configuration. 642-432 involves basic IP telephony, its troubleshooting, and integration with an accessible PSTN network.

If you don’t know what we are talking about when we talk about computer based training, computer training, computer courses maybe you should try to find something about this. You’re reading a blog, so you should have a common knowledge about computers. You can learn with a computer!

Today most courses have a considerable part of computer based learning, sometimes using offline software applications, sometimes using Learning Management Systems. It’s very usual to train this way in finance, market and most business activities. This can be a real option for real leadership training.

Have you ever learned this way? 

This post is a sponsored review.

ScienceHack is a video search engine for science videos. This is a recent project with lots of potential, especially in education. All videos in the database are quality checked by a team of scientists, and everyone can submit videos for evaluation. 

They have several categories: Physics, Chemistry, Space, Psychology, Robotics, Biology, How It Is Made, Mathematics, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Green Energy, Nature…

If you like science you should try ScienceHack!